{"id":891,"date":"2026-03-05T14:56:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T19:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/articles\/?p=891"},"modified":"2026-03-05T14:56:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T19:56:55","slug":"4-songs-artists-re-recorded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/articles\/4-songs-artists-re-recorded\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Songs Artists Re-Recorded"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Taylor Swift\u2019s project of re-recording her music was a massive undertaking\u2014and one which has some precedent in music history. While few projects have gained as much attention, other artists have taken to recording new versions of their music, whether a few songs or entire albums. Some artists have recorded entirely new versions of their music, complete with new musical arrangements. 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Toy mostly consisted of new versions of deep cuts originally recorded between 1964 and 1971, including &#8220;Baby Loves That Way&#8221; and &#8220;Can\u2019t Help Thinking About Me,&#8221; a staple of his live sets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-songfacts-fact\"><div class=\"songfacts-card songfacts-card-horizontal\"><div class=\"songfacts-content-container\"><div class=\"songfacts-header\"><h3 class=\"songfacts-card-title\"><span>Songfacts: <\/span><span class=\"songfacts-title-part\">Can&#8217;t Help Thinking About Me<\/span><span class=\"songfacts-separator\"> | <\/span><span class=\"songfacts-artist-part\">David Bowie<\/span><\/h3><\/div><div class=\"songfacts-meta\">Album:<span class=\"songfacts-album\">Toy <\/span><span class=\"songfacts-releasedate\"> [1966]<\/span><\/div><div class=\"songfacts-body\"><p class=\"songfacts-card-text\">Bowie admitted when introducing this song during a 1999 performance for VH1 Storytellers, that lyrically, this wasn&#8217;t his finest hour: &#8220;It&#8217;s a beautiful piece of solipsism; it&#8217;s called &#8216;Can&#8217;t Help Thinking About Me,'&#8221; he said. &#8220;And it does contain, though some might disagree, one of the worst\u2026 two of the worst lines I&#8217;ve ever written. 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Drop in, come back, see you around, if you&#8217;re this way again.'&#8221;<\/p><\/div><div class=\"songfacts-footer\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/facts\/david-bowie\/cant-help-thinking-about-me\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"songfacts-button\"><span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/americansongwriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SongFacts-icon.png\" alt=\"Songfacts\" style=\"width:20px;height:20px;vertical-align:middle;margin-right:5px\" \/><\/span>Read the full Songfacts<svg><title>angle-double-right<\/title><\/svg><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cPour Some Sugar on Me\u201d by Def Leppard<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DEF LEPPARD - &quot;Pour Some Sugar On Me&quot; (Official Music Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0UIB9Y4OFPs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>In 2012, rock band Def Leppard rerecorded the hit songs &#8220;Pour Some Sugar On Me&#8221; and &#8220;Rock of Ages&#8221; in order to regain some control of them from their label. &#8220;We want to get the same rate for digital as we do when we sell CDs, and they&#8217;re trying to give us a rate that doesn&#8217;t even come close,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/def-leppard-re-recording-hit-songs-to-wrestle-back-career-from-record-label\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">frontman Joe Elliott explained at the time.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;Heart of Glass\u201d by Blondie<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Blondie - Heart Of Glass\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WGU_4-5RaxU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For the 2014 box set&nbsp;<em>Blondie 4(0)Ever: Greatest Hits Deluxe Redux<\/em>, celebrating four decades as a band, Blondie re-recorded 11 of their biggest hits, including &#8220;Heart of Glass&#8221; and \u201cDreaming.\u201d The re-recordings were made in an attempt to regain control of the band\u2019s rights to their music, and they were almost indistinguishable from their original versions. &#8220;I was proud that they didn\u2019t sound like ancient history \u2013 just history,\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hear-blondies-first-album-in-three-years-blondie-40-ever-235639\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> frontwoman Debbie Harry said<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Swift\u2019s project of re-recording her music was a massive undertaking\u2014and one which has some precedent in music history. 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